اَللّـهُمَّ لا تُؤاخِذْني فيهِ بِالْعَثَراتِ،

O Allah, on this day, do not condemn me for slips,

وَاَقِلْني فيهِ مِنَ الْخَطايا وَالْهَفَواتِ ،

make me decrease mistakes and errors,

وَلا تَجْعَلْني فيهِ غَرَضاً لِلْبَلايا والآفات،

do not make me a target for afflictions and troubles,

بِعِزَّتِكَ يا عِزَّ الْمُسْلِمينَ.

by Your honor, O the honor of the Muslims.

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O’ Lord! Treat us with Your Grace not Your Justice!

Obviously, all human beings except for the Infallibles will have lapses and even commit sins in their lives. In such times when one is afraid of Allah’s wrath, one can seek refuge with His mercy and when one fears Divine Justice, one can find refuge in His Grace and Forgiveness.

Divine Justice is what we need to be worried about, when it comes to calculating one’s good and bad deeds, while Divine Mercy and Forgiveness is rather comforting for us, knowing that Divine Mercy means that Allah will overlook some of our misdeeds and will incline toward rewards more than toward punishment.

This is exactly what we sometimes pray to Allah in the Qunūt of our prayers, imploring Him to treat us based on His mercy and not based on His Justice:

إلهنا عاملنا بفضلك‏ و لا تعاملنا بعدلك يا كريم

From this perspective, there is no equilibrium between the divinely-granted reward and the good deeds done by the believers, because the reward will be way greater and more than the good deeds which are done. Therefore, mankind always feces Allah’s Grace in all aspects of their life but they face His Justice when they receive His punishment.

What is Iqālah?

The Arabic word Iqālah, which derives from the root word Qīla, refers to any sort of overlooking the mistakes and misdeeds of people.